Planter.



E. M. HE-YLMAN.

PLANTER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 28, 1014.

1.1 10,935, Patented S ept. 15,1911.

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. Attorney E. M. HBYLMAN.

PLANTBR. APPLICATION IILED APR. 28, 1014.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914;

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WKDVESSES a 4 "9 v INVENTOR I To all whom it may concern Be it lmownfthat I, EDWARD M. HEYLMAN,.

EilWAJR-D Iii, :HEYLIBHEMl', QFSDU'IHH BEND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO GLIVIER CHILIJED I :PLG'W WUEKS, 01? SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

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Specification of Letters Patent Patented Sept. it,

Application filed Apri128, 1914. Serial No. 834,962.

' of South Bend, in the county of St. Jo-

seph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Planters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in planters, such as may be made adaptable forces for planting cotton, corn or peanuts,-one object of the invention being to provide simple and elficient feedactuating mechanism which shall be adaptable for operating interchangeable feed mechanisms.

A further object is to improve the corn struction and enhance the efiiciency of the operation of cotton feeding means.

A further object is to provide s mple means for imparting motion from the axle of a walking planter to the feed. operating mechanism and also means for easily. and accurately stopping and starting said feed operating mechanism without altermg or shifting any part of said mechanism per se.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out-in theclaiins. s a .1

- In the accompanying drawings; Figure l is a side elevation of a walking planter embodying my improvements; F g.

view of the same with the seed can and a 'portion of the feed mechanism removed;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view showing portions of the cotton seed. feed devices and the removable ring of can base in which the same are mounted; Fig. 4 is a bottom plan View of the structure shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a plan view with the base ring and agitator wheel removed; Fig. 6 is a sectional view on theline 6-6 of Fig. 3; Fig. 7 is a sectional View on line 7-7 of Fig. 3; Figs. 8 and 9 are enlarged views showing the form of tooth of said agitator wheel, Fig.

10 is a plan View showing a corn feed mechanism mounted in tllGIBlTlOVtllJlB base ring, and Fig. 11 is a detail view showing the clutch devices on the axle of the traction wheel. l The main frame of the machine comprises beams 1+2 suitably spaced apart and Zfis a plan having their forward ends bent downwardly in an inclined direction and mounted loosely near their free forward ends upon an axle 3, the latter passing freely through the hub of a tractor wheel A draft yoke 5 is con nected with the forward portions of the frame beams and provided at its free end A. furrow with a suitable hook or clevis 6. opener 7 is connected with the main frame by means of a suitable standard 8 and be hind the latter, a seed boot 9 is located to receive seed from the feed mechanism here mafter described. Standards 10 arepro- 'vided at the rear ends of the beams ofthe main frame and these standards carry coverers 11. i

,A rectangular frame 12, made preferably in a single casting, is located between the beams of the main frame and is provided at each side with two seats for the reception of the beams of said main 'rame, to each of which beams, the frame 12 is securely bolted at each end, as at 13. Handles 1e are secured to the main frame atthe rear end of the frame 12, and the rear bolts 13 may beutilized to secure the forward end of the handles in place, said hundles being also connected with the beam standards 10 by means of brace bars The frame 12 may be termed the base frame for the feeding means and the ooerating mechanism therefor, and the central portion of this frame is made with a circu lar mounting 16 and a stud 16 for a hori zontally disposed gear wheel 1?. This wheel is provided with upwardly projecting lugs 18 for a purpose hereinafter described.

' removable base ring 19 is hinged atLO to the base frame 12 and the rear portion'of said ring is made with an extension 21 seated upon lugs of the frame, said extension having open slots 22 for the reception of bolts 23, the heads of which are loosely mounted in the lugs 22, and upon soidbolts, suitable thumb nuts 2d. are provided for securing the base ring in place. A spider 25 is disposed within the base ring 19 and held (removably) in place by means of buttons 26. This spider affords a mount ing for a centrally located short vertical shaft 27, to the upper end of which a convex agitator disk or wheel 28 having eripheral teeth 29, is secured and to the lower end of said short shaft, arms 30 are fastened and adapted for engagement by two of the lugs18 on the gear. wheel 17 for the purpose of imparting rotary motion to the agitator wheel when said gear wheel 17 is rotated. Agitator arms 31 are' secured upon the 'disk or wheel by a thumb nut 32 screwed upon the u pperend of theshort shaft :27,-said agitator arms being so bent as to project in an upward direction from the disk 28 and operate. to loosen the cotton seed in a seed can 33, removably mounted upon the base ring 19. I I

The base ring-19 is made with an elongated seed outlet opening 34, and under this opening, a toothed feed wheel 35 is located. A slide valve 36 is mounted upon the extension 21015 the base ring and adapted to be made to project more less over the toothed feed wheel for regulating the outlet of cotton seed, as hereinafter more fully explained.

The'base frame 12 is provided at its sides with bearings 37 for a transverse shaft 38, and to this shaft, 2. bevel pinion 39 is secured inposition to mesh with the gear Wheel 17 for imparting motion to the latter. The toothed feed wheel 35 is carried by a shaft disposed. at right angles to and in a plane above mounted in bearings 41 in the base frame -located respectively in front and in rear of the pinion 39) is secured to the shaft 40 and receivesmotion from the horizontal gear wheel 17. i

, It will be readily seen that by means of this arrangement of gearing above described, motion." imparted tothe shaft 38 will be transmitted by the pinion 39' to the gear 5 wheel 17 "for rotating the toothed agitator wheel'or disk 28, and that motion will be transmitted from said gear wheel 17, by means of the small pinion 4:2 to the shaft/10 and consequently to the .toothed feed wheel 35, the latter being thus driven at a greater rate of speed than that of the agitator wheel or axle and 'in a reverse direction. Such relative speeds of'the agitator wheel and the feed will result in a much more accurate drop of the cotton seed than if the feed wheel were permitted to rotate slowly, bccause when-said feed wheel runs slowly, the slide valve 36 which regulates the outlet of seed to the feed whecl must be opened wider than when the feed wheel is rotated rapidly to insure the feeding of the same amount of seed, andwhen the slide valve is thus opened, the seed will become bunched? and the subsequent thinning-out of the plants will be rendered tedious and diilicult.

Much better results are attained when the feed slide valve 36 is opened just enough to accommodate one seed at a time and by increasing the speed of the feed wheel. it is possible to insure the droppingof a proper amount of seed without bunching the same,

'65 but when the feed ivhecl is thus rapidly rothe shaft 38., said shaft 4'0 being shaft 38. A pinion 42 (smaller than the tated, it is difiicult, with the use of agitator wheels or disks heretofore employed to insure the entrance of the seed into the notches of the feed wheel with sufficient rapidity. To overcome this defect of prior constructions, I have so shaped the teeth of the agitator wheel or disk that they will operate to force the seed into the notches of the feed wheel. The forward edges of the teeth29 of the agitator wheel or disk are formed by forwardly curved ribs 43 which are preferably extended partially over the coifvex upper face of said wheel orv disk. The teeth of the agitator wheel or disk are thus so shaped that they will operate to force the seed to ward the inside edge of the feed wheel, and the under sides of said teeth are beveled and rounded off so as to force the seed down into the notches of the feed wheel.

The. driving shaft 88 of the feed-operating mechz'inism, is provided at its respective ends with crank arms e k- 14 disposed 90 apart and at respective ends of the axle 3, crank arms 45-45 are similarly secured. The crank arms 4% are connected with the crank arms 45 by means of pitmen Mi- 16. By thus providing crank arms at both ends of the axle connected with crank arms at both ends of the driving shafts and arranging the crank arms of the respective pairs 90 apart, danger of dead centers will be avoided; the wear and side thrust of the movable parts in their hearings will be reduced to a minimum, and the tendency of the machine to run sidewise with constructions employing single crank-and-pitnian connections, will be obviated.

One end of the hub of the traction wheel dis nn is with a clutch member 47 and between this end of the hub and the beam 1 of the main frame, a sleeve 48 having angular exterior faces, is secured -o the axle and provided at one end with a fixed collar or iange 4:9. A flanged collar 50 made with a clutch member 51 isniounted to slide; on the angularly-faced sleeve 48 and a spring 51 is disposed between the fixed flange or collar 49 and the movable flanged collar 50 to force the clutch member 51 into locked engagement. with the clutch member-.47 on the hub of the traction wheel. In this 1nanner the traction wheel is locked to the axle so that motion will be transmitted from the. latter to he feed operation mechanism as previously explained.

A bracket 52 projects inwardlv. from the frame beam .1 and in this bracket, :1 bell. crank 53 is mounted. One arm of this bellcra-nk is bifurcated and spans the flanged clutch collar 50 for shifting the same to release the clutch member 51 fronrthc clutch member 47. The other arm of the bell-crank is connected by a rod FT-l with a foot lever l pivot-ally attached to the roar portionof .the main frame. Bympressing this foot 1,11o,a as

. lever, the clutchgnember 51 will be er ated as above described, and when the cot lever has been pressed sufliciently to cause the pivotal connection of the rod 54 there- In order to convert machine fronts cotton to a corn lanter, all that is necessary is to raise the ass rin 19; remove theispider 25 and agitator d isk and arms, and then mount a corn feeding mechanism 56 in said base ring 19, as shown in Fig. 10.

To adapt the machine for planting peanuts, the corn feeding mechanism may be displaced in the base ring 19hy a feed mechanism especially adapted for feeding peanuts.

Various slight changes might be made in the details of construction of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof or limiting its scope and hence I do not wish to restrict myself to the precise details herein set forth.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and 'desire to secure by Letters-Patent, isi 1. In a planter, the combination with a main frame, of a base frame secured thereto, a horizontal gear wheel mounted on the base frame, a base ring, a toothed agitator disk mounted on said base ring, driving "connections between said gear wheel and agitator disk a driving shaft mounted in the base frame, a pinion secured to said shaft and meshing with the gear wheel, a, second shaft mounted in the base frame in a different horizontalplane from that of the driving shaft, a feed wheel on said. second shaft, and a pinion on said second shaftmeshin with said gear wheel, said last-mentions pinion being smaller than the first-memtioned pinion, whereby the feed-wheel will be driven at greater speed than that of the agitator disk.

2. In a planter, the combination with a base frame, of a base frame, a shaft mounted therein, a feed wheel on said shaft, means for rotating said shaft and feed wheel rapidly, amhorizontal agitator wheel having teeth movable over the feed wheel, each of |said teeth having a curved forward edge and a beveled lower face, and means for rotating said agitator disk.

In testimo ny vghereof, I have signed this specificationthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD M. HEYLMAN.

Witnesses:

Enwm NICAR, KATE E. BUcKLnY. 

